◾ ...but some of us are looking at the stars

◾ Sketch this

My head’s ready for bursting.I’m working on some sketches right now for Friday, to send away to a new news/cultural sketch show which will be on the radio to see if they want to give me a job.I love the idea of sitting about in a staff room, reading newspapers and making fun of stuff for a living.But in reality it’s quite difficult to write a good sketch.Something not redundant or overdone and most of all funny.I think I’d really enjoy it and be good at it, but I need to get my shooting boots on. I like to derive a lot of comedy from specific dialects and “patter” – but that’s not really an option in a nationwide thing.

I’ve formulated a few ideas.Some that could actually be good enough to send away, and some not (a send-up of Oscar speeches last night… I feel too good about Kate Winslet winning to be snarky and bitchy about it re: shampoo bottle.Surely we all did something similar?)

Few notes on current TV:

24:Long since abandoned.Season 6 was terrible and 7’s not that great.Watched first four or five episodes while doing the ironing and I really have thrown in the towel.

Gossip Girl:Not been on in a month or whatever, but still pleasing me.

Heroes:Last episode I watched was when Elle died.It wasn’t wholly intentional, but it was just too, too awful to continue.I don’t even miss it.

L Word: Jenny’s a crazy bitch, half the characters annoy me and the writers are gonna fuck with my TiBette again:Frustration is nothing new with this show.Just 2 episodes left – ever - and Lucy Lawless in the finale.That’s something to look forward to.

House: Gagging hard on the Foreteen but House has been watch-able.

Dollhouse: Was so very not impressed with the first episode.SO very not.And it’s Whedon.And Eliza – wtf is wrong with me?From prostitution (well that’s how I choose to see it when a millionaire purchases Eliza Dushku for the weekend, implants her with a bondage tendency personality and then wipes her afterwards once his time has expired) to paedophilia.The second one is sitting on my hard drive and I cannot bring myself to watch it.The concept – which sounded interesting when first announced – seems ridiculous and vaguely disgusting.I know Buffy the Vampire Slayer sounded dopey from the outset – think way, way back before you’d even seen it – the name was awful.But the show was so brilliantly crafted it didn’t matter – it just made it all the more endearing.If Firefly got cancelled, but this stays on the air then the masses really do have no taste.

I don’t think I even bother with anything else anymore.TV has not been stellar.Even the last season of Weeds blew.

wuht?! Lucy Lawless? I'm not used to her with blond hair. I loved the black hair from Xena. oh god I loved Xena.

Anyway, I like Weeds. I dunno about the last season though, I don't like her being with that president of Mexico. Boo. But, other than that - I love Mary Louise Parker. I have a huge girl crush on her. Always have actually. :D

I heard that Eliza's new show was a dud. Heard the first epi was just awful. I expected big things, but...I dunno. I haven't even bothered to watch it just because none of my Whedon friends were enthused. SAD.